关于保护熊猫的英语作文初二70词左右(汇编20篇)

Water is the source of life, life, human health without water. Few people can not eat, but you cant days without water. And now, global 20 million people are in severe water shortages!!!!!!!!!! Water crisis, has to humans was a wake-up call!

Chinas water resocurces, but most of all, is the sea water of the sea is salty, is not directly drinkable, Plus most all freshwater distribution in cold north and south poles and permanent snow mountain, this place is freshwater resources. And uneven distribution, east of north, south west of less than, the local water.

When I was a child I want to tap water, water has been flowing nonstop not? Mom and dad always told me what was recently and drought.

Many years ago, before I moved to the city, I lived in a small town. I was so close to the nature, I could see the mountain and the clear water. I remember the town became especially beautiful after the heavy rain, the air was so fresh and I felt a little cozy, it was like a gift from god in the hot summer. The mountain looked so clear over the heavy rain, it just washed by the rain. The things around me were so green. I love living in the town, I especially like the town when it was washed by the rain. At that moment, nature and me were united, we just like a group.

Today is Chinese New Year, was the day of family reunion, I waipojia New Years day this year.

After lunch, I found the red lanterns are hung from house to house, stick couplets on the Spring Festival, I also cant wait to stick couplets on the Spring Festival, and he said to mother: "mom, I want to stick couplets on the Spring Festival." Mother agreed. I just went to see my uncle and help put the ladder and take up Spring Festival couplets. Uncle put on the Spring Festival couplets of double-sided adhesive to off, then carefully stick Spring Festival couplets on the wall, to look left, look right, did alignment, so just stick Spring Festival couplets.

When we eat dinner, have applauded "pa" firecrackers outside. I have to succumb to, cant help to go outside to watch the beautiful fireworks, some like a chrysanthemum, some like a peach blossom, and like a light rain, beautiful! Watch, I also itching, want to set off firecrackers by our own hands. Grandpa let me go to some large firecrackers, I started a little dare not, first looked for a moment, found in adults, are not dangerous, at last I scary, carefully lit firecrackers to lead, I fly back immediately, "crackling crackling......" Good enough!

In the evening, our whole family sit together, eating snacks, watching the Spring Festival gala. The party is wonderful! Crosstalk, sketch, dancing and magic...

New Year is lively, everywhere decorated, every family is permeated with happy New Year. I wish you all a happy New Year!

今天是农历的大年三十，是阖家团圆的日子，今年我在外婆家过年。

吃完午饭后，我发现挨家挨户都挂着红灯笼，贴着春联，我也迫不及待地想贴春联，于是对妈妈说：“妈妈，我想贴春联。”妈妈答应了。我就去请姨父帮忙，把梯子和春联拿了过来。姨父先把贴在春联上的双面胶给撕下来，然后再把春联小心翼翼地贴在墙上，左看看、右看看，对齐了没有，这样春联就贴好了。

我们吃晚饭的时候，外面就有“啪啪啪”的鞭炮声了。我已经按捺不住，情不自禁地跑到外面观赏美丽的烟花，有的像菊花，有的像桃花，还有的像小雨点儿，真美!看着看着，我也蠢蠢欲动了，想自己亲手放鞭炮。外公让我去点大的鞭炮，开始我有点儿不敢，先旁观看了一会，发现有大人在，并不是很危险，最后我提心吊胆、小心翼翼地把鞭炮的引线给点燃了，马上我飞似的往回跑，“噼噼啪啪，噼噼啪啪……”好过瘾哦!

晚上，我们全家人围坐在一起，一边吃零食，一边看春节联欢晚会。晚会真精彩!有相声，有小品，有舞蹈，还有魔术……

新年真是热闹，到处张灯结彩，家家户户都洋溢着过年的喜气。祝大家新年快乐!

导语：随着环境污染问题的严重加剧，越来越多人认识到保护环境的必要和重要性，下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

Nowadays more and more people realize it`s necessary and important to protect the environment. Alsothere are some people who don`t pay attention to hygiene and they can`t stop littering the rubbish casually or spitting everywhere all the time.And in addition there are a few factories often cutting down the trees discharging chemicals and dirty water and so on.And it causes many problems like the Greenhouse Effect.If they do these day by day and our life will be harder and harderso we have to stop them. To stop them we can put up commonweal advertisements and tell them the detriment of destroying the environment.So we can start from now to make a beautiful life.

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如今，越来越多的人认识到环境保护的必要和重要性。同时，有些人整天都不注意卫生，而且他们不能停止乱扔垃圾或者随意，随地吐痰。此外，还有一些工厂经常砍伐树木，化学品和污水排放等。并导致像温室效应问题很多。如果他们现在这样做，我们的生活会越来越困难，所以我们必须阻止他们。阻止他们，我们可以贴公益广告，告诉他们破坏环境的危害。所以我们可以从现在开始做一个美好的生活。

A thought-provoking dialogue between the mother elephant and her own child appears in the first picture. Having growing his teeth, the young elephant is eager to share the exciting news with his mother. However, after repeating his words several times, there is still no response coming from the mother. Meanwhile, the attractive caption in the second photo reads: no trade, no kill.

The above pictures unveil a hazard posed to wildlife due to the expanding scale of world commercial hunting. At least two fundamental factors could contribute to this phenomenon. The industry of commercial hunting have undergone a booming expansion (along with the growing public awareness of the merits of wildlife, which makes/), making hunting unusually profitable. Worse still, lacking knowledge regarding the significance of ecological balance, some people take the gun to chase animals insatiably (and thus cause a severe threat to all life in the world). Apparently, this trend will surely in turn endanger humankind in the long run.

(On no account should we turn a blind eye to such things.//All these factors above make it crucial to take drastic measures to protect the wildlife.) Accordingly, governments all over the world are supposed to unite to work out effective measures against commercial hunting. Additionally, people should be educated from childhood to cultivate the awareness that we and the rare wild animals share the same precious planet. I do believe a harmonious relationship between the wildlife and human beings is awaiting us if we make every effort to promote wildlife protection both nationally and internationally.

Animal is the friend of mankind, is an important part of the natural ecosystem. It is human precious naturalresources. Protect animals to maintain natural ecological balance has important significance.

But now many animals are facing the danger of extinction.With the development of society, pesticide used and serious pollution, city sewage .The wild animal living area is becoming increasingly narrow. Many of the animal is facing a food crisis currently . Whats more, in order to obtain wild animal of precious materials, humans are killing animals.

In order to maintain ecological balance, we should take some effective measures to protect  animals.We should develop pollution standards to reduce emission of toxic substances,  prevent the killing of some rare animals strictly.  We can also establish a national park as a wild animal protection area. The most important thing is to improve people s knowledge of animal care.

Let us join hands in creating a harmonious coexistence of human and animal beautiful homes!

Pandas are my favourite animals. In fact, all the people like pands as well. Pandasliving in the wild can live for 20 years while the pandas that live in the zoos can have a life of more thqn 30 years. Pandas are really lovely. They can not only climb trees but also swim. However, the number of pandas is decreasing sharply. It is said that there are only 1000 pandas remaining in the world at present. It is sad news for all of us. Therefore, we are supposed to take measures to protect pandas in order to prevent them from dying out.

Many wild animals are facing the danger of extinction， because the environment that they are living in has changed greatly。 For example， with the developmet of cities， the using of insecticide and serious pollution， their living areas have become narrowcr and narrower。 Many of the wild animals， now are confronted with food crisis。 At the same time， man is killing off species just for getting their fur， skin， horns， teeth and meat。

In order to protect our resources of ecology， people should realize that the loss of any species is at least the loss of source of knowledge and a source of natural beauty。 There fore， measures of the following should be taken： pollution standards are made to keepdown poisons; killing off certain rare species is prohibited; national parks should be set up as wild life， reserves。

Only if we human beings take some drastic measures can wild animals be preserved。

I asked my English teacher this morning, “How do you learn Chinese when you were a child? Think about it, and you’ll find the answer.”

I cannot recall how I studied my native language, but I still remember the way my little cousin learned to speak. He listened to what people said and tried to imitate what he had heard. At two or three years old, he could express himself in simple language. Now, he is five years old, he can speak more perfectly. He is using language, thinking in it and talking in it all the time.

I understand if I use English all the time, it won’t seem so difficult. I will learn it quickly. It’s the best way to learn a foreign language.

今天早上我问我的英语老师,“你怎么学习中文当你还是一个孩子?想想看,你就会找到答案。”

我不记得我怎么学习我的母语,但我仍然记得我的小表弟的方式学会了说话。他听人说什么,并试图模仿他所听到的。两到三岁,他可以用简单的语言表达自己。现在,他五岁,他会说更完美。他是使用语言,思考它,在它所有的时间。

我明白如果我用英语,它不会那么困难。我很快就会学会的。这是学习外语的最佳途径。

Pandas are my favourite animals.In fact,all the people like pands as well.Pandas living in the wild can live for 20 years while the pandas that live in the zoos can have a life of more thqn 30 years.Pandas are really lovely.They can not only climb trees but also swim.However,the number of pandas is decreasing sharply.It is said that there are only 1000 pandas remaining in the world at present.It is sad news for all of us.Therefore,we are supposed to take measures to protect pandas in order to prevent them from dying out.

大熊猫是我最喜欢的动物.事实上,所有的人都喜欢品牌一样.生活在野外的大熊猫能活20年而生活在动物园的大熊猫能有更多的thqn寿命30年.熊猫很可爱.他们不仅能爬树而且游泳.

然而,大熊猫的数量正在急剧下降.这是说,只有1000只大熊猫留在目前世界.这对我们所有人来说都是坏消息.

因此,我们应该采取措施来保护大熊猫,为了防止其灭绝.

Now let me say something about Beijing Opera. Beijing Opera is very popular in China. It has a history of more than 200 years. During the reign of the Qianlong emperor in the Qing dynasty, Qianlong had a interest in the local opera. In 1790, to celebrate his eightieth birthday, he summoned opera troupes from different places to perform for him in Beijing. Four famous troupes from Anhui province remained in Beijing after the celebration. In 1828, A Hubei troupe came to Beijing and often performed together with the Anhui troupes. The two types of singing mixed together and gradually a new type came into being known as Beijing Opera. Now is the performance. I hope you will like it.

现在让我说关于京剧。京剧在中国很受欢迎。它已经有200多年的历史。在清朝乾隆年间，乾隆对地方剧有兴趣。1790，为了庆祝他的八十岁生日，他从不同的地方戏曲剧团召唤到北京为他表演。来自安徽省的四个剧团表演完后留在了北京。1828年，一个湖北剧团来到北京，经常与安徽剧团一起演出。两种唱法混合在一起，逐渐成了一种新的类型被称为京剧。现在京剧就要开始了。我希望你会喜欢它。

The earth is our home, but also our mother. Earth free supply us all kinds of resources, but we still for a little petty profit, regardless of the consequences of wanton to destroy her. As the only one earth, "the article said, we cant count on destroyed the earth moving to other planets, the earth if lost, then fell to the earths fate will eventually befall humans. So we too late, too late, to protect our earth, care for the environment, I suggest you to do the following:

1. Cherish now every mouthful of air, as far as possible to reduce the number of the factory, industrial waste gas will be less. The good news is, we see the government has put many polluting factories, rectification within a time limit or migration. We also know that every household use of coal gas has been changed to natural gas, advocating walking with less cars, this is to protect the atmosphere. We more afforestation, forest not only can breathe fresh air, also can purify the air. To stop deforestation behavior, less destruction of nature.

2. Dont abuse of various resources, such as coal, ore, wood, water... If these resources are endless, is bound to form all kinds of resources depletion, when people do not have the resources, we could not survive.

3. The water is the source of life, but it is too small. Although the surface looks large area on earth is covered by water, but with less than one over ten, an acute shortage of water in many cities, so, we should save water. At present, the school advocates our toilet cistern in home put a mineral water bottle, isnt it the measures to save water? Use to wash the dishes, the water that clean out rice water the flowers, use wash clothes water to flush the toilet, isnt it a to save water!

As long as everyone to do the above, the earth has been already saved!

地球是我们的家，同时也是我们的母亲。地球无偿的供给我们各种资源，而我们却还为了一点蝇头小利，不顾后果的肆意去破坏她。正如《只有一个地球》那篇文章所说的，我们不能再指望破坏了地球移居到别的星球上去，地球如果灭亡了，那么降临到地球上的命运终究也会降临到人类身上。所以我们亡羊补牢，为时不晚，保护我们的地球，爱护环境，我建议大家做到如下几点：

1.珍惜现在的每一口空气，把工厂的数量尽可能的减少，工业废气也会随之减少。可喜的是，我们看到政府已将许多重污染的工厂叫停，限期整改或迁移。我们还知道每家每户用的煤气已改成了天然气，倡导步行少用汽车，这都是保护大气的举措。我们还要多植树造林，森林不仅能呼出新鲜空气，还能净化空气。要制止乱砍伐森林的行为，要少破坏大自然。

2.不要滥用各种资源，如，煤、矿、木、水……如果这些资源被无止境的开采，必定会形成各种资源的枯竭，当人们没有资源时，我们就无法生存了。

3.水是生命的源泉，但是它又实在太少了。虽然表面看起来地球上大面积都被水覆盖，可是能用的却不到十分之一，许多城市严重缺水，所以，我们要节约用水。目前，学校倡导我们在家里的马桶水箱里放一个矿泉水瓶子，不正是节约用水的举措吗?用洗菜、淘米的水浇花，用洗衣服的水冲马桶，不正是为节约用水尽一份力嘛!

只要大家做到以上几点，地球就有救了!

As we all know, pollution is harmful to living beings. There are many different types of pollutions in this world. For instance, water pollution, air pollution, noise pollution and so on. Water pollution cause many kinds of disease that have negative effects on human beings, sometimes the diseases will take people’s life away. Dirty air will increase the rate of getting lung cancer. While the noise pollution will cause insomnia. People’s health condition will be damaged.

In my humble opinion, people should take measures to control the pollution. Recently, not only the government, but also individual has taken part in the action of protecting the environment. This is a good sign. Rivers are being cleaned, air is purified, and the people come to realize that the importance of protecting the environment.

However, this is not enough, the problems are still exist. Not all of them have been solved. Some factories are still pouring dirty water into the rivers or give off the toxic gas into the sky. We should know that protecting the environment needs everybody’s effort.

Christmas Day falls on the twenty-fifth of December. It is a very happy day for many boys and girls. Before the term ends in some schools, the children act a nativity or “birth” play, showing how Jesus was born in a stable.

12月25日是圣诞节。对许多男孩和女孩来说，这天是个非常开心的日子。在某些学校，学期结束前，孩子们会表演有关(耶稣)诞生或出生的戏剧，用来(向大家)展示耶稣是如何在马厩里出生的。

On the twenty-fourth of December, all children are very excited. Usually they are sent to bed early so that their parents can get the presents ready. The younger children think that Father Christmas will come down the chimney or fireplace, so they hang up a sock for him to put presents in. The greedy ones even hang up a pillow-case or a sack to try to get more presents. Later that night, father or mother will put presents in the sock, and leave others at the side of the bed.

在12月24日这天，所有的小孩都很兴奋。他们常常被(父母)早早地赶上床去睡觉，以便他们的父母能准备好礼物。年幼一点的小孩认为圣诞老人将从烟囱或壁炉里下来，所以他们挂起袜子，方便圣诞老人把礼物放进去。有些贪心的人，为了能得到更多的礼物，甚至把枕套或布袋挂起来。晚一些时候，爸爸或妈妈将礼物放进袜子，并把其他礼物放在(孩子们的)床边。

On Christmas morning, the children wake up very early. Some even turn on the light at two oclock, and most of them are awake by six oclock, and the young ones play while the dinner is prepared. At about one oclock in the afternoon, the Christmas dinner is brought in. The turkey or chicken is quickly eaten. Children search in their Christmas pudding for new coins which are hidden in it. The rest of the day is full of games and eating until the happiest of all Christmas holidays comes to an end.

圣诞节的早上，小孩们很早就醒来了。一些人甚至在凌晨两点开灯，但大多数小孩会在六点醒来，孩子们在(大人们)准备晚餐的时候玩耍。下午一点，圣诞大餐出炉了。火鸡或鸡腿总是很快被抢光。孩子们寻找着属于他们的圣诞布丁是为了确认金币是否有藏在里面。在剩余的时间里，(人们)便是玩游戏和吃食物直到最开心幸福的圣诞节结束。

When I see the cartoon, I like to watch the cat machine very much, he has a time machine, he always helps his friend to fine something with time machine. The cartoon makes me think of what would I do if I have a time machine. If I have a time machine, the first thing I want to do is go back to the time when I play with my friend, he now moves to another place, I never say goodbye to him, I want to make it up and say goodbye to him. The second thing is I want to go back to the time when I shout at my mother, I regret about this all the time, I wish I had a chance to say sorry at that time. Now I have to face the truth that I will never have time machine, I should cherish the time and thing I own now, be nice to my mother.

当我看卡通片的时候，我很喜欢看机器猫，他有一台时光机，他总是用时光机来帮助他的朋友找到一些东西。这个卡通片让我想到了如果我也有一台时光机，我会做什么。如果我有一台时光机，第一件事做的就是回到我和朋友玩耍的时光，他现在已经搬到另外一个地方了，我没有和他道别，我想要补偿并道别。第二件事就是我想回到我反驳母亲的时光，我总是为此感到悔恨，我希望我那个时候有机会道别。现在我必须得面对现实，我不会拥有时光机，我应该珍惜现在是时间和所拥有的东西，对母亲友好。

清晨，我在家又没人陪我玩，妈妈去上班了。我就去朋友家玩，可朋友又不在家，我就在他家门外看见了一棵大树，我就往上看，上面有一只啄木鸟在给大树治病。刚好，地上有一个弹弓，我就拿起弹弓，瞄准啄木鸟，正要发射的时候，我的朋友小红回来了，他看见了，就连忙跑过来，说：“小明，快放下，”小明奇怪地问：“为什么啊，”小红说：“因为啄木鸟正在帮我家的大树治病呢，还有，老师也说过我们要保护动物的呀，”小明说：“小红我知错了，我一定会改的，”小明回家了，我就我在小红家做的事告诉了妈妈，妈妈就说：“小明你真是知错能改的乖孩子。

Early in the morning, I at home and no one to play with me, my mother go to work. I went to a friends house to play, can be friends and not at home, I saw a tree outside his door, I look up, there is a woodpecker to cure in the tree. Just, a catapult on the ground, I picked up a slingshot, aim at the woodpecker, when I was about to launch, my friend Xiao Hong came back, he saw, hurriedly run to come over, said: "Xiao Ming, fast down," Xiaoming asks strangely: "why," Alice said: "cure because the woodpecker was helping my family tree, and, the teacher also said that we should protect the animal ah," Xiao Ming said: "red I was wrong, Ill change," Xiao Ming came home, I told my mother I in the red house do, mother said: "Xiao Ming you are really rectifies the lovely children.

我们可一定要向知错能改的好孩子，小明学习呀。

We must ask rectifies the good child, Xiao Ming studying.

Panda is favored by people from all around the world and it is unique in China. These lovely animals are famous for the round shape and black eyes, who live in the southwest part of China. As its peculiarity, it has long been treated as national treasure. The government often sends pandas to other countries as the gift to show friendliness. Panda has been the important ambassador in dealing with the foreign affairs. Panda is very lazy. They sleep for a very long time and they barely move. People love them and they play the joke that you have the panda eyes, which means you don’t get enough sleep. A lot of people come to the tourist sites to witness this national treasure. There are special nurses trained to look after pandas. They like the families as they get along with each other for a long time.

熊猫受到来自世界各地人们的喜爱，它在中国也是独一无二的。这些可爱的动物因为圆圆的体型和黑黑的眼睛而出名，它们住在中国的西南部。由于它的特质，所以长期以来被视为国宝。政府经常把熊猫作为示好的礼物赠送给其他国家。熊猫已经成为重要的外交大使。熊猫很懒惰，他们经常在睡觉，几乎不怎么活动。人们喜欢它们，有时候他们会用熊猫眼来形容一个人没有得到充足的睡眠。很多人跑去旅游景点去看国宝。大熊猫有专业的人训练、照顾，他们就像是一家人，因为他们彼此相处了很长一段时间。

With the development of science and technology, peoples living standards are getting higher and higher, environmental problems are more and more serious, you found it?

Lets talk about water pollution! Gas stations and other factories always put the water without purification to the river, resulting in small fish without home. 50% of our country can not use clean water, this figure is not terrible? So saving water is imminent, you still waste it?

Lets talk about the problem of reducing trees! Now a lot of trees have been cut down by us, so the dust storm came, the flood came, nature to revenge us. We all know that the use of disposable chopsticks are made of trees, if each of us every day can use a pair of disposable chopsticks, one year down can keep ten thousand trees, see this time, you are still presumptuous Behavior?

Lets take a look at the sky, the blue sky is gone, the white clouds are hidden, is it really gone? No, they are just "smoke" by the smoke from the factory.

These are water caused by it? Are our own human beings, if not felling of trees, garbage, a reasonable discharge of purified sewage, I believe our planet will be beautiful. Protect everyone from the earth, let us work together to protect the environment!

随着科技的发展，人们的生活水平也越来越高，环境问题也越来越严重了，你们发现了吗?

咱们就来说说水被污染的问题吧!加油站和其他工厂总是把未经过净化处理的水排放到河里，导致小鱼没有了家。我们国家有百分之五十一的人都无法用到干净的水，这样的数字难道不可怕吗?所以节约用水已是迫在眉睫，你还在浪费吗?

我们再来说说树木减少的问题吧!现在好多树木已经被我们砍伐叻，所以沙尘暴来了，洪水来了，大自然来报复我们了。我们都知道使用的一次性筷子都是用树木做的，如果我们每个人每天可以少用一双一次性筷子，一年下来就可以保留千万棵树木，看到这时，你还在放肆自己的行为吗?

我们再来看看那天空，蓝蓝的天不见了，白白的云也藏起来了，是真的没有了吗?不是的，它们只是被工厂排放的浓烟给“保护”起来了。

这些都是水造成的呢?都是我们人类自己，如果不乱砍伐树木、垃圾，合理排放净化过的污水，相信我们的地球就会很美。保护地球人人有责，让我们一起来保护环境吧!

初中英语作文:初二英语作文 Helen Keller

Helen Keller lived in the USA. She was a great woman.

Helen was blind and deaf. She couldnt see anything or hear anything. Her parents are very sad.

A teacher helped Helen study words. Helen studied them very hard when she grew up. She went to college. In Helen Kellers life, she wrote fourteen books and her first book is "My Life". The book "If you give me three days light" is very famous.

She has some words: Be of good cheer. Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.

Though she was blind and deaf, she found a way to see and hear.

[初二英语作文Helen Keller

导语：环境污染变得愈加严重，在一些地区,空气也变得又脏又有害。因此,动物和植物濒临绝种。下面是yuwenmi小编为大家整理的优秀英语作文，欢迎阅读与借鉴，谢谢!

Today the quality of our natural environment has become an important issue. The world population is rising so quickly that the world has become too

crowded. We are using up our natural resources and at the same time polluting our environment with dangerous chemicals. If we continue to do this, life on earth cannot survive.

Concerned people have made some progress in environmental protection. Governments of many countries have established laws to protect the air, forests and sea resources and to stop environmental pollution.

Still more measures should be taken to solve environmental problems. People should be further educated to recognize the importance of the problems, to use modern methods of birth control, to conserve(保存) our natural resources and recycle(再循环) our products. We are sure that we can have a better and cleaner place in the future.

今天,自然环境质量已成为一个重要议题。世界人口增长如此之快以至于世界已经变得太拥挤了。我们正在用尽自然资源,同时,用化学危险品污染环境。如果我们继续这样做,地球上的生命将无法继续存活。

有关人员有了一些进展在环境保护。许多国家的政府都制定了法律以保护空气,森林和海洋资源并停止环境污染。

更多措施应该被采取解决环境问题。受过教育的人应该是进一步认识问题的重要性,要运用现代控制生育的方法来保存(保存)我们的自然资源和循环(再循环)我们的产品。我们相信,我们可以有更好的和比较干净的地方,在未来的。

Panda is familiar by more and more people as the development of Internet. Now people can see the live show from the Internet. These lovely angels are favored by the fans from all over the world. What they do in the daily life makes people laugh out loudly. No one can resist the charm from these angels. But it is known to all that panda is dying out, because it is not easy for them to get birth to the new babies. What’s more, people damage the environment, which makes panda lose their home. We can do small things to protect them. When we go to the zoo, we should not throw away the rubbish and keep quiet, in the purpose of not to disturb these lovely creature. We love panda, it is our duty to protect them from dying out.